Published on April 18, 2023
Owensboro Health Wound Care Recognized for Patient Satisfaction and Wound Healing Rates
Owensboro Health is pleased to announce that Owensboro Health Wound Care has earned the Center of Distinction award by Healogics®, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. To achieve this distinction, the Wound Care center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for 12 consecutive months, including high patient satisfaction rates. They also maintained a minimum wound healing rate of at least 92 percent within 28 median days to heal.
“This prestigious award reflects a commitment to satisfied patients with quality outcomes,” said Jennifer Balascio, Program Director at Owensboro Health Wound Center. “Wound care is a team sport – achieving excellence requires commitment by our patients, and hard work and dedication of our team.”
Owensboro Health Wound Center has two locations with offices in Owensboro and Beaver Dam, where they treat approximately 300 active patients per month. As a member of the Healogics network of over 600 Wound Care Centers®, they are able to offer highly specialized wound care to patients suffering from diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections, bedsores and other chronic wounds which have not healed in a reasonable amount of time.
Advanced wound care treatments the experts provide include negative pressure wound therapy, total contact casting, bio-engineered tissues, biosynthetic dressings and growth factor therapies. Owensboro Health Wound Care also offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which works by surrounding the patient with 100 percent oxygen to help progress the healing of the wound.
Healogics, headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., is the nation’s wound healing expert. Last year over 300,000 patients received advanced wound care through a network of over 600 Wound Care Centers. Healogics also partners with over 300 skilled nursing facilities to care for patients with chronic wounds and provides inpatient consults at more than 60 partner hospitals. As the industry leader, Healogics has the largest repository of chronic wound-specific patient data in the country. The Healogics Wound Science Initiative offers peer-reviewed research and advanced analytics in the pursuit of not only better outcomes, but a better way to provide care.
About Owensboro Health
Owensboro Health is a nonprofit health system with a mission to heal the sick and to improve the health of the communities it serves in Kentucky and Indiana. The system includes Owensboro Health Regional Hospital, nationally recognized for design, architecture and engineering; Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital; Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center; the Owensboro Health Medical Group comprised of over 350 providers at more than 30 locations; three outpatient Healthplex facilities, a certified medical fitness facility, the Healthpark; a weight management program, and the Mitchell Memorial Cancer Center.
On average each year, we have more than 19,000 inpatient admissions, deliver 2,000 babies and provide the region’s only Level III NICU. Owensboro Health physicians perform nearly 33,000 surgical procedures, including nearly 150 open-heart surgeries. Our physicians and staff have 90,000 Emergency Department visits and more than 1.25 million outpatient visits annually. Visit our home page for more information.